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Sunday, 16 July 2006

The Big Bookstore Sale.

My dad called me up and told me that there was a book sale by Big Bookstore in Atria that would last till the end of the month. He urged me to go because he saw hardcovers of Salman Rushdie's "Shalimar the Clown" being sold for Rm18.90 and thought I'd be interested. I said, I would be interested if they were paperback, but I said I'd go anyway.

Good thing I did... a lot of good novels available at RM10.00 each. Here is what I managed to escape with:

Fiction

The Double by Jose Saramago

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver

Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov; translated by Michael Glenny

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Bird Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Where's My Cow by Terry Pratchett

Non-Fiction

To Sir With Love by E.R. Braithwaite

Cities by John Reader

Visiting Mrs Nabokov (and other excursions) by Martin Amis

Classic Railway Journeys of the West by Max Wade-Matthews

I repurchased a copy of "To Kill a Mockingbird" because I've had this urge to reread it, but I can't locate my existing copy. (The perils of having a family that moves around too much.) I hate the cheap mass-paperback cover--the one that's pink. So when I saw them selling the much-cooler black paperback cover for only Rm10.00, I had to get it.

Can't wait to dive into this lot, especially the Martin Amis one! Yay!